I want to move over to China here because currently we have UK Prime Minister Kier
Starmer.
He's visiting with the leadership in China right now as we speak.
You can see some of the images there.
He went over to make a visit and it's very appropriate because over the last couple
years under Kier Starmer's leadership, the UK has made headlines like this.
How Britain became a surveillance state.
Here's another one.
UK under spy and the sky surveillance has hundreds of drones deployed across the nation and here's
the latest minority report policing to catch criminals before they strike.
It says in this article the government is investing in four million pounds in creating
an interactive AI driven map of England and Wales by 2030 that aims to stop criminals
before they strike.
The project will use official data to identify areas that are likely to see criminal
activity such as knife offenses or spot early warnings of ready for this anti-social
behavior, whatever that means, so that police can intervene before it escalates.
They spoke to British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood in this article and she said this,
when I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system
was to achieve by means of AI and technology what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his
panoptagon.
That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times.
This is a chilling statement.
Jeremy Bentham was a British philosopher.
We have Jeremy Bentham.
He's a British philosopher.
Late 18th century, he innovates this idea, comes up with the idea of a prison design
and it's basically where a single guard in a central tower can observe all the inmates
in the surrounding rings of the cells.
It creates a feeling of constant surveillance.
It acts as an all seeing eye.
Bentham also envisioned this to apply for other institutions like schools,
factories and hospitals to give you an idea where his mindset was.
But what this does is this constant surveillance encourages basically self-discipline.
It encourages fear in people because they never know when they're being watched.
So they try to self-check themselves.
Assumption is you're always being watched.
And at any point you're being watched, therefore I must always consider myself being watched.
Right.
And so this is what the UK police, this is their gold standard.
This is what they want to achieve, all seeing eye policing.
And so their new white paper just came out and talking about a new model for policing.
And it says this,
we'll be investing in facial recognition capabilities and the responsible adoption of these.
Okay.
This will include over 26 million pounds of development delivery of a national facial
recognition system at 11.6 million pounds on live facial recognition capabilities and
national coordination of these, just like China.
And here's the cool part.
40 new live facial recognition vans will be driving around will be available to support
the police and town centers and high crime hot spots across the country.
So that's the UK.
They're rapidly evolving clearly into a surveillance state here.
And we're talking, when we talk about AI, clearly this is going into the policing.
We're talking about AI is taking a lot of our jobs and it's only moving faster at this point
being installing government to what ends, we'll see pretty soon, I think, but this rapidly
moving throughout society and people are left to wonder what is left for the human
experience. And when I look at this headline here and this, this caption, this image from
Canadians, Canada's made, that's the medically assisted suicide the government has put forward.
And they have a statistic here about people that go through this pathway to end their
lives from government sponsorship.
And it says, the reasons they do it 86.3% do it because they cannot engage in
meaningful activities.
Meaningful life, meaningful activities is a key to the human experience.
And AI is probably going to take some of that away.
In fact, don't listen to me.
Here's Elon Musk just last week at Davos.
Listen to what he had to say.
Actually, my prediction is in the benign scenario of the future
that we will, the robots, we will actually make so many robots in AI that they will
actually saturate all human needs.
Meaning you won't be able to even think of something to ask the robot for at a certain
point. Like there will be such an abundance of goods and services.
Because my prediction is that there will be more robots than people.
But how do you then have human purpose in that scenario?
Yeah, I mean, you know, there was nothing, nothing's perfect.
You know, it's really shocking.
He's such a smart guy.
You always get the sense he's thought of everything.
And in all of his discussions, in all of his building of robots,
he hasn't figured out an answer to that question.
Well, nothing's perfect.
Like robbing us of the human experience completely.
It just, it's sort of like what we see in pharma, right?
It's like a polio.
Let's just go ahead and start giving this thing to everybody.
And let's see what happens.
Sure, there could be some side effects out there like, you know,
people just wanting to kill themselves,
but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
It's really why the world is as difficult a place as it is right now
as too many people not thinking things through or in charge.